- #!/bin/bash 
- s='<User id="10338" directoryId="1" sometext txt text test/> 
- <User id="10359" directoryId="100" some more text text text/> 
- <User id="103599" directoryId="100" some more text text text/> 
- <User id="10438" directoryId="1" sometext txt text test/>' 
- sed -e '/directoryId="1"/b' -e '/<User id="/d' <<< "$s" 
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